Serving a sentence in Yaroslavl IK-1 Vazha Bochorishvili surrounded by prison staff during the beating. Screenshot
Details have been established regarding the last weeks of the life of the prisoner Vazha Bochorishvili, who served his sentence in IK-1 of the UFSIN in the Yaroslavl region and died there, in the colony, within the walls of the prison hospital in May 2017 .
This death was a bad omen for the entire Yaroslavl Federal Penitentiary Service: soon after it, the first video of torture leaked from the dungeons of the colony — against prisoner Yevgeny Makarov — and the first criminal cases were initiated against the employees of the colony. To date, 10 such records have already been published, criminal cases have been initiated against more than 30 employees, seven of which have gone as far as sentencing. And this is not the limit: now the lawyers of the “Public Verdict” * who are conducting all these investigations, insist on bringing to justice people who did not directly participate in the torture, but calmly covered it up and prolonged the suffering of prisoners with their silence.
Very often, human rights activists are asked what guides people who give them videos of torture in prison. And often human rights activists simply shrug their shoulders: well, probably, the human psyche can no longer endure this.
Perhaps it was the terrible death of Vazha Bochorishvili, which lasted for three weeks, that became such a trigger for someone.
The fact that within the walls of Yaroslavl IK-1 was tortured, and subsequently the convicted Vazha Bochorishvili died, Novaya wrote back in 2017. We learned about this from other prisoners who were also tortured.
